Children’s neighborhood mobility has been widely examined through either independent movement or psychological autonomy, yet few studies consider how these dimensions intersect in the lived realities of low-income, high-density environments. Th...
1 November 2019
Older adults’ out-of-home behaviors (OOHBs) are critical for maintaining health and quality of life. Taking Singapore’s Yuhua East as a case, this study applied a qualitative approach to explore what neighborhood environmental factors inf...
This paper is to explore how the neighborhood-unit concept, which had been initially promoted by North America and the United Kingdom, was adopted and utilized in the Asian cities of high-density developments, such as Seoul and Singapore from a walka...
The contradiction between urban density and sustainable environmental development is increasingly prominent. Although numerous studies have examined the impact of urban density on air pollution at the macro level, most previous research at the micro...
Worldwide, the 20-minute neighborhood has gained popularity as a promising urban planning paradigm, emphasizing active mobility and proximity for residents to access essential urban services within a short distance. This concept aims to create a utop...
21 December 2020
Urbanization and climate change have been rapidly occurring globally. Evidence-based healthy city development is required to improve living quality and mitigate the adverse impact of the outdoor neighborhood environment on public health. Taking Guang...
Mean Shift is a flexible, non-parametric clustering algorithm that identifies dense regions in data through gradient ascent on a kernel density estimate. Its ability to detect arbitrarily shaped clusters without requiring prior knowledge of the numbe...
Rapid urbanization has intensified public housing development and building density, posing significant challenges to residents’ well-being and urban sustainability. With the population of the Greater Bay Area on the rise, enhancing the spatial...
Infectious diseases and pandemics, including the COVID-19 pandemic, have a huge economic impact on cities. However, few studies examine the economic resilience of small-scale regions within cities. Thus, this study derives neighborhoods with high eco...
In the process of data transmission in mobile ad hoc networks, it is essential to establish optimal routes from source nodes to destination nodes. However, as network density increases, this process is often accompanied by a significant rise in netwo...
Block layout is the main urban pattern in many city centers in the East and West, and this layout has a long history and will continue to develop in the future. However, there are relatively few studies on the quantitative analysis of this layout, es...
The link between the built environment and residential segregation has long been of interest to the discussion for sustainable and socially resilient cities. However, direct assessments on how extensively diverse built environments affect the social...
This study examines how users’ preferences for spatial elements in neighborhood parks influence satisfaction and assesses the moderating role of urban density in this relationship. An online survey was conducted with 283 residents in the Seoul...
Decades of migration and refugee influxes have driven Amman’s rapid urban growth, yet newer neighborhoods increasingly grapple with fragmented social cohesion. This study examines whether walkable design can strengthen community bonds, focusing...
9 December 2022
Based on the social ecological approach, a photovoice study was conducted to explore how neighborhood built and social environments facilitate or hinder college students’ lifestyle behaviors, including physical activity, active transportation,...
Urban green space can effectively optimize the urban landscape and environment and provide residents with space for daily leisure and recreational activities. In order to realize the green development of Macau, this paper takes the Macau Special Admi...
In recent years, the 15-minute city (15MC) model has gained significant attention among scholars and practitioners, particularly in the wake of COVID-19. However, limited research has explored how this model can be adapted to high-density, high-rise...
31 August 2017
Previous studies found a relationship between geriatric depression and social deprivation. However, most studies did not include environmental factors in the statistical models, introducing a bias to estimate geriatric depression risk because the urb...
In recent decades, Doha, the capital of Qatar, has experienced a large-scale transformation due to globalization and rapid economic growth. Recently, these changes have led to a focus on infrastructural development and the launch of the city’s metro...
Urban areas in subtropical regions are increasingly exposed to heat stress as climate change intensifies extreme heat events. In high-density cities, urban renewal is widely implemented to upgrade aging building stock, yet its potential role as a pas...
6 January 2023
Despite the many research studies on active school travel (AST), the number of children walking/cycling to school is decreasing as there is a lack of implementable research evidence. This review through database searches from 2000 to 2020 aims to ide...
Against the dual backdrop of rapid population aging and legacy neighborhood renewal, morphologically planning-locked legacy neighborhoods in high-density cities face persistent imbalances in outdoor activity spaces that undermine aging-in-place parti...
Rapid urbanization and spatial constraints in high-density residential areas pose significant challenges to public health and well-being. This study investigates the mechanisms by which the visual environment of urban micro public spaces shapes resid...
With the rapid expansion of high-rise and high-density buildings in urban areas, visual privacy has become one of the major concerns affecting human environmental quality. Evaluation of residents’ visual exposure to outsiders has attracted more atten...
Transit-oriented development (TOD) pursues sustainable urban development through compact growth, mixed-use zoning, and pedestrian-friendly neighborhood design in cooperation with transportation planning. Seoul has actively developed urban rail transi...
Studies have assessed neighborhood walkability responding to increasing interest in academics, practitioners, and policy makers. While Walk Score is a well-operationalized and efficient measure of neighborhood walkability, it is not supported in the...
As cities densify and lifestyles become increasingly individualized, older adults face heightened risks of isolation and reduced wellbeing. Yet in historic Chinese neighborhoods, everyday socio-cultural practices—square dancing, Mahjong, commun...
Following the rapid development and urbanization in China over recent decades, sustainable renovation of urban residences has become an important issue. This study aimed to develop an architectural teaching program integrating the study of local clim...
Examining the relationships between vehicle crash patterns and urban land use is fundamental to improving crash predictions, creating guidance, and comprehensive policy recommendations to avoid crash occurrences and mitigate their severities. In the...
Short-term rental (STR) platforms like Airbnb have significantly impacted urban housing sustainability, particularly in cities like New York City. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the STR market, raising questions about its resilience and effects on s...
The accurate determination of the Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) of Moso bamboo is crucial for estimating biomass and carbon storage in Moso bamboo forests. In this research, we utilized handheld LiDAR point cloud data to extract the DBH of Moso bam...
To achieve the goals of carbon peaking, a national policy instrument for carbon peaking in the building and construction sector has been launched by the Chinese MOHURD (30 June 2022). We have developed an actionable framework for implementing these p...
High-precision and high-density three-dimensional point cloud models usually contain redundant data, which implies extra time and hardware costs in the subsequent data processing stage. To analyze and extract data more effectively, the point cloud mu...
29 December 2021
Poor air quality has been a major urban environmental issue in large high-density cities all over the world, and particularly in Asia, where the multiscale complex of pollution dispersal creates a high-level spatial variability of exposure level. Inv...
Rapid urbanization has significantly exacerbated the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect in high-density megacities, driven by the intensifying competition between built-up morphology and natural cooling infrastructure. Current research, however, often fa...
Urban squares in historic neighborhoods are vital public spaces, often the only nearby option available for an aging population. However, these spaces face increasing thermal discomfort exacerbated by urban heat island (UHI) effects. This research fo...
Peak-hour congestion in metro systems poses significant challenges to operational reliability and passenger experience. This study investigates a coordinated operational strategy that integrates passenger flow control, reservation-based entry, and sk...
The objective of this study was to identify the effects of land-use characteristics on the transport mode choices of people according to their purpose of travel. Land-use characteristics consisting of variables associated with density, diversity and...
High-quality urban green space (UGS) is an integral part of a livable city. The scientific evaluation of UGS has great value for improving the quality and efficiency of green spaces. In this study, we integrated the water and walking networks into th...
Seismic disasters pose major challenges to urban resilience, particularly in high-density cities where the concentration of people, buildings, and infrastructure amplifies disaster risk. This study establishes a GIS-based analytical framework to eval...
Numerous studies have explored the cooling and energy-saving effects of vegetation and reflective materials under extreme heat conditions in urban residential areas. However, few have explored the synergistic effects of vegetation and albedo, particu...
While global climate adaptation goals are well-established, their translation into neighborhood-scale spatial reality remains underexplored, creating a critical knowledge gap regarding the social acceptability of specific interventions. This study ad...
Rapid urbanization has fostered the proliferation of urban villages (UVs), high-density informal settlements that pose unique challenges for environmental management. Despite their prevalence, the dynamics of pollutant accumulation in these transitio...
Rapid urban expansion across southwestern Florida has led to extensive habitat fragmentation and degradation, presenting significant ecological challenges for the persistence of multiple species, including the Big Cypress fox squirrel (Sciurus niger ...
Research on spatial statistical methods related to population estimation at the building scale and its implications for urban land use has attained little attention. The main target of this study is to propose a new method for population estimation a...
With the rapid expansion of cities due to population growth and urbanization, conventional centralized wastewater collection and treatment systems are slowly becoming a burden; expensive maintenance is required for aging plants and piping infrastruct...
The built environment plays a critical role in promoting residents’ physical activity, yet the interactive mechanisms between objective environmental factors and subjective perceptions remain insufficiently understood. This study examines three...
20 November 2019
Few studies have focused on a relationship between the built environment and musculoskeletal pain. This study aimed to investigate an association between neighborhood walkability and knee and low back pain in older people. Data were derived from the...
The increasing popularity of high-rise, high-density residential areas in urban environments has brought about problems such as isolation from nature and increasingly depauperate ecological conditions, and consequently, adverse effects on residents&r...
This paper introduces a new method for real-time high-density impulsive noise elimination applied to medical images. A double process aimed at the enhancement of local data composed of Nested Filtering followed by a Morphological Operation (NFMO) is...
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